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Insta360’s X4 captures 8K 360-degree video

There’s a cult following for 360-degree cameras. While companies like GoPro and Ricoh continue to dabble in the category, Insta360 simply dominates it. Until today, the X3 was the ultimate 360 camera, with loads of features and shooting modes that…

Acoustic navigational tech gets scuba divers using GPS maps

Because GPS doesn’t work underwater, divers usually can’t track their real-time position on a digital map. The new Diver Navigation System (DNS) gets around that problem, however, using both floating and wearable acoustic transponders. Manufactured by German underwater tech company…

How to destroy a black hole

Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse – and subjects them to the laws of physics to…

SCOTUS Won’t Review District Courts’ Authority to Award Sanctions

“The Ninth Circuit applied an “inherent authority” analysis without even mentioning Rule 37 and affirmed “$36 million in evidentiary and terminating sanctions against one defendant for another defendant’s discovery failings.” – Topolewski SCOTUS petition The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday…